America is the Bad Place

Call me Comrade. Capitalism Kills. BLM. I Will Fight for Someone I Don’t Know.

[David Hockley ✝️ #RestoreBritain @David_J_Hockley]

You think that’s impressive…. The West’s military industrial complex has magic weapons that turn black hole defence budget into private wealth for politicians.

Our military hardware is so explosive that politicians on 100k-200K per year have networth of 10’s of millions. Some in the hundreds of millions.

Boom 💥

[America is the Bad Place @_Audrasavage]

@ethnogruffy @mcsquared34 He would have to own the facility it was performed in.

[America is the Bad Place @_Audrasavage]

@BillCobleigh @mcsquared34 The majority of Americans do want this. The question is why our government “representatives” won’t vote on it.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

A sheriff in Alabama took home as personal profit more than $750,000 that was budgeted to feed jail inmates — and then purchased a $740,000 beach house, a reporter at The Birmingham News found.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

This is criminal

[Taylor McNallie ☕ @TaylorMcNallie]

12. Black. Men. Self. Immolated. In. Prison. And there is no media reporting on it.

"Kevin Rashid Johnson reports that Econ and his cellmate Trayvon Brown set themselves on fire hoping to escape the intolerable racism, abuse, and inhumane conditions they were subjected to."

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

Israelis keep finding new ways to disgust and appall the world.

[GNCordova @GNCordova]

If this country didn’t treat incarcerated people like they’re subhuman, this story would be all over every news platform. But because these are Black men and the US prison system is the evolution of American chattel slavery, people don’t care.

[Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy @SarcasmStardust]

If this doesn’t infuriate you, your brain might be broken. Billions upon billions of dollars are being spent to blow people up in far away countries and our own people are freezing to death following a natural disaster. We are a shithole country.

[Eric @EricG1247]

Cops murdered a baby by shooting it in the head and then murdered the baby's mother.

Then the cops later said the mom was armed, they lied, she was not armed.

[hk @hassankhan]

my mother got a new job at a PE owned nursing home and they’re paying her with a prepaid debit card that doesn’t let her transfer the money to an external bank account?? This country is such a scam

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

In a final "Fuck You" to the American people before leaving office, Joe Biden just told Ukraine it doesn't have to pay back $4.65B of the $10B in aid that was supposed to be a "loan". And American workers can go to hell.

We. Don't. Matter. To. Them.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I am having trouble holding a conversation with anyone outside of #WNC today.

I cannot take another “are getting things back to normal?” response to small talk.

No. No it’s not normal.

I saw a woman with a baby living in a tent THIS morning.

FEMA is completely MIA.

Trash is piled 20 feet high.

I’m not mad at anyone for not knowing.

If you’re not on X you would NEVER know that Western North Carolina is dying a slow death of neglect.

My people are freezing. Their homes floating in the river.

And yet no one is here covering it?

I’m lost.

Someone help me make sense of how we could become so forgotten?

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

The "land grab" narrative you've been hearing from people in #WNC is NOT a conspiracy theory.

Here's how it works:

a) Your family lives on 30 acres of land by the river, worth approximately $225,000

b) Helene rolls in and wipes out your home and floods about 50% of your land

c) You now live in a tent with your kids and have applied to get a temporary housing unit from FEMA

d) FEMA shows up, takes a look around and says "sorry, we can't give you a trailer to live in on this land, you are in a flood zone!"

e) You say, "Ok, I don't want to live in a tent with my kids anymore, what should I do?"

f) FEMA says, "You can sell your land to us for the current tax evaluation of $18,000 and we will put you up in a nice warm RV."

g) You say, "Wait, I can't sell this land for $18,000! It's worth at least 10x that and it's the only asset I have."

h) FEMA says, "Ok, no worries. Bye."

i) Now you are stuck living in your tent with your 3 kids wondering if you should sell the only thing you have left to your name just to have a warm place for your family to sleep.

That's the land grab.

[Margo @MargoinWNC]

Here is the deal regarding taking kids from parents in Western North Carolina-this came straight from DSS in an open meeting in Cherokee County, NC.

If they take kids in Western North Carolina, there are few foster families in Western North Carolina available. Kids are being taken to Charlotte or Greensboro or somewhere *very* far out of the Western North Carolina area.

Imagine losing everything-your car, your home, your job-and then your children- and then being told, to get your kids back you have to make an effort to see them 4-5 hours away once a week-BUT YOU HAVE NO CAR OR MONEY.

DSS IS CHILD TRAFFICKING. PERIOD

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s been a lot of discussion about how young men are becoming isolated and radicalized.

Let me offer some perspective, as someone who was once a troubled young man.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

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